NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- New York state logged a 2.66% COVID-19 infection rate on Friday — a day after Gov. Andrew Cuomo reported a "big drop" in the state's positivity rate.
Of the 205,466 COVID-19 test results that came back in the state on Thursday, 5,468, or 2.66 percent, were positive, Cuomo said at a news briefing Friday afternoon.
As of Thursday, 2,348 people in the state were hospitalized with COVID-19, up from 2,276 on Wednesday, he said Friday.
Excluding its microclusters, the state reported a 2.15% positivity rate. The microclusters themselves reported a 4.55% infection rate.
On Thursday, Cuomo said the state's positivity rate including the microclusters—areas seeing a virus uptick—dropped from 3.4% to 2.7%.
The state's positivity rate without the microclusters decreased from 3.1% to 2.3% on Thursday, which Cuomo called "a big drop."
Cuomo on Thursday also announced the state was expanding microcluster zones in Westchester and the Hudson Valley.
In Westchester, the state added a yellow zone in New Rochelle, Ossining, Tarrytown, Yonkers and Peekskill.
In Rockland County, the yellow zone was expanded to include Pearl River, West Haverstraw, Stony Point and Suffern.
In Orange County, the state added a yellow zone for Newburgh, New Windsor, Middletown and Highland Falls.





